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Interface quicktime.app.spaces.CollectionController

public interface CollectionController

extends Controller, Collection

When a Space has an object added to it (or a CollectionController is added to a Space) and the isWholespace returns true, then all members of the space will be added to the CollectionController. It is up to the CollectionController itself to determine through its protocol if the object is an appropriate object to be controlled. If not the object should not be added to the Controller.

If the value of the wholespace setting is false, then it is the responsibility of the application to explicitly add those objects that are to be controlled by this controller.

Once the controller has been added to a Space, changing the wholespace state of the controller is NOT guaranteed to either remove or add existing members of the controller - in fact changing this setting will only effect members that are added to the space after this change - the existing members that have been added to the controller will not be removed by the Space.

The CollectionController extends Controller, which provides the notification of when the Controller is added to a Space and also to be notified when the Space is addedTo the object that is the ultimate source of interests.

The CollectionController extends Collection which is how the Space adds and removes the members from the controller.

isWholespace()

Returns the current setting of the wholespace flag.

 public abstract boolean isWholespace()

Returns the current setting of the wholespace flag.

Returns:

true if any member of the Space is a candidate for being controlled by this controller. If false then objects must be explicitly added to the space.

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